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I don't try to come in and act like I know it all, and that's why I put the extra work in of watching film, getting an understanding of what you want from personnel, each player.
Rajon Rondo
Act
Come
Each
Extra
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Elon Musk
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Heard
Little
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When I had older guys around me, I kind of leaned on them for advice and went through tough times.
Rajon Rondo
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Around
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I have one of those old-fashioned mothers who told me every single day, 'Son, you can do or be anything that you want to do or be.' And I believed it. I bought into it 100%.
Chris Gardner
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The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.
Elon Musk
About
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I've said that if you're not doing something that you're passionate about, you're compromising yourself every single day.
Chris Gardner
About
Compromising
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So many men have holes in their souls the shape of their fathers. You can pass that on to your kid, or you can do something about it, and I'm seeing a lot of men doing something about it.
Chris Gardner
About
Doing
Fathers
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I'm encouraged by what I see of men trying to be there for their children.
Chris Gardner
Children
Encouraged
I See
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With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.
Elon Musk
Able
Cannot
Cures
Current
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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
Elon Musk
Africa
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When you're doing something you're truly passionate about, there is no plan B.
Chris Gardner
About
Doing
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Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
Elon Musk
Collective
Enlightenment
Greater
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I cut grass, I did yard work, I did roofing, I cleaned basements to take care of my family.
Chris Gardner
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Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.
Elon Musk
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I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.
Chris Gardner
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Everything that I learned in the Navy, I took it with me into the next phase of my life.
Chris Gardner
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Learned
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I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
Elon Musk
Good
Good Heart
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No matter what you accomplish, when you're doing something you're truly passionate about... the opportunities are always going to be bigger.
Chris Gardner
About
Accomplish
Always
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My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory. I played trumpet for nine years. One day, my mother explained, 'You can't be Miles Davis. There's one, and he's got that job.'
Chris Gardner
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Fortunately, our digital age has created some wonderful tools for finding employers and showing your strengths. But when it comes to discovering or keeping a job, nothing beats good old-fashioned face time and up-to-date skills.
Chris Gardner
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Remember: If you don't schmooze, you lose. Used wisely, a bit of chitchat helps create a personal connection with your boss and colleagues.
Chris Gardner
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If you're lucky enough to have a permanent position, don't feel entitled. Companies value longtime employees' institutional memory, but to be irreplaceable, you must stay invested. Take the initiative and assume new responsibilities.
Chris Gardner
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Employees
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Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.
Chris Gardner
Another
As Far As
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If you're having a hard time recognizing your gifts, look to someone else you know who's been resourceful. You may be surprised by how your own strengths rise to the surface by watching someone else.
Chris Gardner
Been
Else
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When someone says, 'You can't,' what it really means is that they can't - so why should you get to?
Chris Gardner
Get
Means
Really
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We can all learn something from people we admire.
Chris Gardner
Admire
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Just remember, you're never too old to have a hero.
Chris Gardner
Hero
Just
Never
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Don't wait for the perfect time to start making changes to your life; the time is now.
Chris Gardner
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You can blame outside factors or make excuses about why things didn't work out, but that doesn't change anything.
Chris Gardner
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Nine times out of 10, extenuating circumstances aside, I believe that people are where they are by some kind of choice on their part. You need to acknowledge that, 'Hey, I'm here because I steered my horse in this direction.'
Chris Gardner
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There's a lot of talented guys, but there's not a lot of guys that play the game that right way.
Rajon Rondo
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When you're off the court, that's when it's time to talk or whatever you want to do. But once it goes up, it's time to compete.
Rajon Rondo
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I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.
Ratan Tata
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Ratan Tata
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I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
Eldridge Cleaver
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Too much agreement kills a chat.
Eldridge Cleaver
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.b
Eldridge Cleaver
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George Eliot
Analogy
Dubious
Eggs
Full
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
George Eliot
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I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.
Ratan Tata
Along
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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
Eldridge Cleaver
America
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I think there are many honest businessmen.
Ratan Tata
Businessmen
Honest
I Think
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Eldridge Cleaver
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If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.
Ratan Tata
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I buy a lot of electronics, some which I never take out of the box!
Ratan Tata
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
Eldridge Cleaver
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I quite frankly enjoy the touch and feel of a store, so I am a big bookshop person. Or, I go to an electronics store; Best Buy and Croma are places I could spend a lot of time in.
Ratan Tata
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot
Come
Happiness
May
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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
George Eliot
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters
George Eliot
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